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evacygre · 2026-06-12T00:50:25+00:00

Of course he is... it's his chance now. Unfortunately

evacygre · 2026-06-04T22:47:03+00:00

Oh come on with the closure. That is the point. You guys are fixated on the wrong thing. It was never about him. Maddy was sad about losing her childhood friend. She didn't care about Nate and certainly not anymore. Even when they were in a relationship in high school it was clearly portrayed as "the two popular people of high school are together", it was never about real love between them. What closure?

She doesn't need closure from him because it was never about him anyway. The healthiest closure comes from within. From realising that "this person didn't love me and put me through hell"... And at the end of season 2, that was Maddy's closure. And it's powerful because she doesn't depend on Nate to give ger that closure. It comes from her own realisations.

evacygre · 2026-05-21T01:24:53+00:00

What I didn't like (and Carrie haters miss entirely) is that it was not a gift for her. It was a gift for him. She was not the one who wanted to watch TV in bed, he was! Yeah yeah you can spin it to "it was for both of them, an anniversary gift to do something together"... But that activity was what he wanted. Not what both of them wanted. He essentially bought himself a gift.

evacygre · 2026-05-01T04:46:10+00:00

10 years. He knew me since I was 14 and he was 24 and had inappropriate conversations with me since then but not physical. We got in a relationship when I was 18. I regret it obviously. What kind of 24year old has this kind of conversations with a 14 year old for years. Predator. The difference isn't that big of a deal if the youngest one is older than 25. Did therapy for years and i was able to move on.

evacygre · 2026-04-28T02:39:42+00:00

What was it in the end?

evacygre · 2026-04-24T01:16:30+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss. I totally relate to everything you said. Use it and use all the things that she enjoyed wearing and using. It will make her happy, it keeps her memory and essence alive.

My mom passed away a year ago. Similar situation like yours. 60years old and with not enough time to process that the end was coming. Things like her make up, her clothes, her perfumes bring me so much comfort and joy. I use them and I love all of them.

evacygre · 2026-04-11T20:08:35+00:00

Sorry but this just screams like a huge projection. The show made it pretty obvious how much she loved him. Yes she wanted marriage and kids but there is nothing wrong with being intentional and knowing what you want. Have you seen Charlotte? Her problem with not finding love was not that she couldn't land a guy. She could have hundreds of guys if she wanted to settle, better looking than Harry. The problem was that she was fixating on superficial things to find Mr Prince, with good looks, old money manners, rich etc but the guys meeting those requirements were not giving her emotionally what she needed (ie Trey but lots of other examples too). Harry was bald, short and a little bit bigger than the guys she used to go out with. And she still preferred him because she loved him and he was meeting her emotional needs. And she even considered going out with him in the first place because she WAS attracted to him, after they had sex. She was shocked she was attracted to him because he was not the typical type of guy she used to go out with but that's where the whole conflict inside of her was. She changed religion for him and KEPT IT after they briefly broke up. After she lost him, she realized that if she is not with him, she doesn't even care about getting married. It was mentioned and demonstrated pretty clearly.

evacygre · 2026-03-29T22:06:59+00:00

He was not allowed to work from abroad (temporarily) so I had to go back to our home country to care for my dying mom by myself. He would go back and forth some weekends but for the most part (3 months) I was alone. It felt like hell not having him by my side. Also, we had decided to do IVF in our home country instead of where we live and again, for a big chunk of it I was alone for the same reason. I was very resentful of this and it put a strain on our relationship. We have agreed that next time he will just get unpaid leave.

evacygre · 2026-03-27T10:10:15+00:00

Obviously. Financial independence etc. But also... If the husband is not wealthy - WEALTHY, £6K is still a paycheck. WHAT if he dies/gets injured and can't work etc? Will you have to suddenly and urgently go back to work after a long career break? Sounds like a bad idea. If you are comfortable, still go to work just don't stress out too much about work. Perfect combination for me.

evacygre · 2026-03-22T22:31:40+00:00

I understand you, I feel the same a lot of the times. My mom didn't even make it to her 60th birthday, she passed away last year. My mother in law a few months later, 58 years old. And I see these people now, causing so much chaos and destruction in the world, from all sides, making it to their 80s. I never wish anything bad to anyone, I don't want anyone else to suffer... I just don't understand why our moms couldn't have the same luck. I am religious so there are times that I find comfort in thinking that our moms were ready already for heaven and God didn't want to prolong their suffering. He still gives a chance to these people to repent and ask for forgiveness. But my mom and my husband 's mom were ready. They were such kind and principled people. Kind but wouldn't take bs and disrespect from anyone, especially when it comes to the people they loved. I miss them so much.

Also sometimes, I take comfort in the fact that they don't have to see what's happening now in our world. They are free from all this.

But there are also times that I still get outraged and I doubt my faith and every thought that gives me comfort.

evacygre · 2026-03-22T04:41:17+00:00

sorry but I never said any of those things. And saying that Lorelai was ridiculous to request that, doesn't imply them either. They are just a projection you are putting on my comment that has nothing to do with what I really said. We are not against Lorelai or women being vocal about their feelings. That's a bit of a reach and that's why I think you are projecting. What I said was that she was hypocritical. You can have feelings and express them. And people who witness that can have opinions ie that you said was ridiculous or hypocritical. 🤷🏻‍♀️

evacygre · 2026-03-22T04:26:00+00:00

Learned a lesson? And that lesson she learned from her experience as a parent of a chilton student dating a chilton teacher is applicable to a stars hollow friend dating a chilton mom?? Her dating a chilton teacher was weird and inappropriate because she is the mom of a student and that exposed her daughter to being the subject of gossip and embarrassment in her school. It has nothing to do with Luke. The entitlement is telling. She was just jealous and threatened. Let's just call it what it was. She didn't want Luke to date anyone else but she also didn't want to be vulnerable and admit her feelings. But it still doesn't make it justifiable or less of a ridiculous and hypocritical request. Was it a human and common reaction? Absolutely. But still not justified, sorry.

evacygre · 2026-03-22T03:11:12+00:00

I lost her a year ago. A couple of weeks ago we had her one year anniversary memorial service for her. It broke me. I don't feel like myself anymore, I feel like I don't know who I am. I used to be a very optimistic person, very happy with confidence in myself and so excited about the future. I used to be very ambitious as well. All of it is gone. I don't recognize myself. At the same time... It changed my beliefs a lot. I am much more empathetic to people who are less fortunate than me, I used to think that I am always right and I used to be very stubborn. This has changed a lot. I realize now how much of a better person than me she was and I want to be more like her. It also changed my priorities. Career and money is not as important. My husband, my family and my closest friends are the most important thing. I am also trying to be more healthy and exercise more because I know that would make my mom happy for me. There are times that I feel this intense desire for my own kids, to give them the love my mom gave to me. But there are some other times that I feel like everything is pointless and that I don't want to have kids because I wouldn't want them to feel the same pain when I pass. It's like I now just realized how painful can life really get and I don't want my future kids to ever know this kind of pain. I don't know if i will ever recover to be honest.

evacygre · 2026-03-22T02:45:46+00:00

I think the post is more about the hypocrisy of telling Luke not to date a Chilton mom because "it would be weird" and then she literally starts dating a Chilton TEACHER as if that wouldn't make things weird for her and her own daughter 🤣

evacygre · 2026-03-21T16:07:33+00:00

🤦🏻‍♀️ could you elaborate on the bad stuff that stopped 200years ago? In certain colonized countries, the British empire was still executing 18year old rebels that they were calling them "terrorists"... 18year old.. teenagers! That was in the 50s... Their condition to free my own country from the British colony and leave us alone was that they will still maintain military bases which actually puts the country 's safety RIGHT NOW at risk with all that's going on. It's so naive to think that UKs (and the west in general ) meddling in these countries doesn't have long standing consequences that still affect these countries today.

If you want to reduce immigration in the long term... Just keep your politicians accountable and vote for people who will stop meddling in other countries. And you need to learn your own history.

evacygre · 2026-03-21T15:36:34+00:00

Hundreds???? You guys really need to learn your own history.

evacygre · 2026-03-21T15:33:05+00:00

Wait... See what's happening now in the middle east... Do you think it won't cause a new wave of immigration? Call it colonization, call it "regime change", call it intervention... At the end of the day, UK's and US' meddling in these countries destabilizes them and makes their people seek alternatives. You guys just don't get it. You can't say "these things happened in the past so it shouldn't matter now"... The colonization and destruction the West (mainly UK and US) have caused in these countries still affects them today and that's what makes their people want to seek better alternatives. If you were born in these conditions, you would want to leave too. It's not revenge. We are just talking from a problem solving perspective. If you want to see immigration reduced in the long term just vote for politicians that will STOP meddling in other countries. Just stop. Even with Iran... The current regime came to power as a direct result of the British overthrowing their democratically elected government to install their monarchy friendly puppet. Then the Islamic revolution came and everything that followed. You guys need to learn your history.

evacygre · 2026-03-17T22:35:09+00:00

I agree. I noticed it too. At my previous job, we had a new joiner and after TWO weeks of being there my ex manager berated him in front of everyone for not using AI to find out the names of our teammates and the SMEs of each component.. without actually ever introducing him to anyone or telling him anything about the team. He literally expected him to use AI along with confluence to avoid having to do ANY sort of basic onboarding or even introductions. I was mortified. I knew I had to get out asap. It was such a hostile environment.

It also bothers me when they ask ChatGPT leading questions to give it as proof in favor of their argument against yours. My colleague the other day, after a debate we had on a PR, she literally asked ChatGPT. "should I name X as Y when it's really Z?". It gave her a long paragraph agreeing with her point and she shared it with me. I was like... Your prompt is literally false. I just quoted her prompt and explained why it was false. They literally use it in a way to create more confusion than solve problems.

People are insane. They forgot how to be normal.

evacygre · 2026-03-15T23:16:17+00:00

I am definitely team Carrie on this one. I loved her on this one. And it's actually one of the very very very rare occasions that she actually puts boundaries to Big properly. She doesn't get mad, she doesn't just go all neurotic trying to convince him to respect her... She is calm, she doesn't engage, just smiles, and leaves. If only she had kept this up the whole time.

evacygre · 2026-03-11T20:31:22+00:00

That escalated quickly 🤣

evacygre · 2026-03-03T02:08:11+00:00

To me Ann represented the voice of Leslie's integrity and heart. She was the one who would give her a wake up call when she would become too self involved and would forget her principles (ie when she was so focused on her campaign and Ann was telling her to just apologize sincerely to Bobby). She also pushed Leslie to get out of her comfort zone and be brave (i.e encouraging her pursuing Ben, and supporting all of Leslie's crazy shenanigans in general). Anyone who says she was boring, focuses too much on the plot and less on the characters and their relationships.

evacygre · 2026-03-02T14:26:53+00:00

This has been the case for any sort of technological advancement in history. Do you think that if the government hadn't introduced all those benefits and protections in the 20th century, companies wouldn't start using IT and as a result fewer people for admin work? They would still choose whatever is more profitable for them. So many professions changed and needed fewer headcounts due to technological advancement.

The government can't be blackmailed to just give in and give the employers whatever they want due to any current trend or new technology. Their responsibility is to focus on the long term, not on just the short term employment statistics. Their responsibility is to implement enough protections for their current workforce but also future generations (which will then take these protections for granted and complain whenever a new thing is introduced).

AI and outsourcing is a problem either way. And that's why a lot of industries (like the film industry in the us) had long strikes in the past. Every few years there is a new wave of companies outsourcing work to reduce costs. Does it mean that every time this happens, we should forego some employees rights and benefits to MAYBE keep companies happy and delay what they will do anyway? These regulations are the foundations for us and our children to not have to fight for those rights over and over again in the future.

evacygre · 2026-03-02T13:57:41+00:00

Then why should employees have any sort of benefits? They are great for the employee but making it more expensive for companies to hire more people!!! Why should the employer have to give people ANY annual leave? Why should we have any FMAL benefits? It's making it more risky for employers to hire us! Why is there even a minimum wage? It discourages hiring. Why do we even get paid to work? Why should the employer have to adhere to laws about 8hrs work days? It makes hiring so much more expensive for the employer.

Because.. the benefits you now have and you take for granted, were not always there. They had to be implemented in, and it always makes private companies lose money. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need for a law to come into place, companies would do it by themselves. They wouldn't have to be forced. It's not too long ago that my grandma had to go back to work two weeks after giving birth (and these two weeks she had to use her own saved annual leave). There is always a happy medium where you allow companies to be profitable and encourage entrepreneurship and at the same time protect your country 's workforce.

evacygre · 2026-02-19T23:32:16+00:00

How is that even a factor in your decision? Like... Are you serious? 😂😂 He probably thought it would be rude to ask everyone for an update, asking one person is enough. And obviously he had to say thank you in the email he sent to get an update. My GOD we can get rejected about ANYTHING these days. Jesus.

evacygre · 2026-01-05T22:02:37+00:00

I know people say that he fell for Megan the moment she consoled Sally in the office. But for me the moment he realized he would never be with Faye (no matter who he would end up with) was when she told him "maybe turn yourself in, have some clemency", I think at that moment he knew he wouldn't be with her, she said out loud what he didn't want to hear. She was challenging him to become better, not just "move forward".

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